Prof. Dr. Filip Dorssemont is full professor of Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of the UCLouvain (in Louvain-La-Neuve). He is the President of the School of Labour Sciences (UCLouvain) and member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Expert Network (European Trade Union Institute). Filip Dorssemont has read law (Antwerp University, Master in Law 1993), studied philosophy (bachelor Antwerp University 1990, and a Complementary Studies in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University, 1994). In 2001 he defended a Ph.D. thesis in law. In 2023 he obtained a Master in History of Art (UCLouvain).
“The book will become a staple for the students of visual jurisprudence, demonstrating how beneficial for legal scholars in general may be a venture into another field of study. In addition, who knows– perhaps the book will become an inspiration and, in the coming years, our colleagues– scholars of civil law or penal law will produce their own formidable volumes on the intersection of the particular discipline with art that will join the ever growing series.” (Mirosław Michał Sadowski, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 38 (4), 2025)